NC Counties Urban/Suburban/Rural Dataset

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nccountiesUSR.csv

Description

A classification of counties in North Carolina as urban, suburban, and rural.

Variables

• Region: classification (Urban, Suburban, Rural)
• County: county name
• City:
  • name of the central city (urban regions)
  • name of the Metropolitan Statistical Area Principal City (suburban regions)
  • NA (rural regions)

Rows: 100
Columns: 3
$ Region <chr> "Urban", "Urban", "Urban", "Urban", "Urban", "Urban", "Urban", …
$ County <chr> "Alamance", "Buncombe", "Burke", "Caldwell", "Catawba", "Craven…
$ City   <chr> "Burlington", "Asheville", "Hickory-Lenior-Morganton", "Hickory…

# A tibble: 6 × 3
  Region County   City                    
  <chr>  <chr>    <chr>                   
1 Urban  Alamance Burlington              
2 Urban  Buncombe Asheville               
3 Urban  Burke    Hickory-Lenior-Morganton
4 Urban  Caldwell Hickory-Lenior-Morganton
5 Urban  Catawba  Hickory-Lenior-Morganton
6 Urban  Craven   New Bern                

# A tibble: 6 × 3
  Region County     City 
  <chr>  <chr>      <chr>
1 Rural  Warren     <NA> 
2 Rural  Washington <NA> 
3 Rural  Watauga    <NA> 
4 Rural  Wilkes     <NA> 
5 Rural  Wilson     <NA> 
6 Rural  Yancey     <NA> 

References

wataugawatch 11/13/2019: Urban/Suburban/Rural Counties in North Carolina

Old North State Politics: OMB Definition of Metropolitan Statistical Areas & Creating Urban/Suburban/Rural Classifications in NC

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